Dancing the night away with the cougars of Westlake to the very excellent voice and rocking Christmas tunes of the great Raul Malo.
When I go to a concert these days it's as much a cultural experience as it is a musical experience, because as I get older I get more and more interested in observing the crowd at a concert as well as listening to the music. I like music, but I'm also fascinated by who else likes and listens to that music. So when I write a review it's often as...
Two blues bands pass through Anaheim.
I had heard the name Gov’t Mule and of its leader, guitarist Warren Haynes, bandied about in jam-band circles, but didn’t know their music. At one point, I downloaded a bootleg a portion of their 2007 Halloween show where they covered Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy in its entirety. They sounded very good, but I knew there had...
Despite the director's horrendous choices, the brilliance of the music shines through.
Following in the tradition of genre-blending summits that paired Jimmie Rodgers and Louis Armstrong, and Bob Wills and Charlie Parker, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis played two nights of the blues at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room against the backdrop of the city at night. An album of the music was released in July 2008 to rave...
Their star shot blindingly across the blues-rock landscape during the early-1990s, but by 1993 the Arc Angels had burned out in a blaze of battling egos, substance abuse, and (admittedly...
